that is exactly what a carbonated soda should look like hey guys King Yoshi
left the comment down below asking if WE could make our own carbonated drinks
using dry ice with almost 800 likes this is by far the most popular comment so
that's what we're trying today we're making fizzy drinks on the DIY now we're
all familiar with that customary hiss that you hear when you open a bottle of
soda the actual noise that we hear is the pressure in the bottle rapidly
escaping at the top and the reason that most sodas begin to fizz as you do is
because the carbon dioxide dissolved in the solution begins to nucleate and
rapidly come back out now the first step in making fizzy soda or a fizzy drink is
to start off by making fizzy water now I just went down to the grocery store and
pick up a bottle of San Pellegrino sparkling natural mineral water very
posh stuff right but if you open it up and pour some out you'll find that it's
basically just water with a little bit of fizz and that fizz is really the only
thing that makes it Sparkle there's really no sweet taste to it at all it
literally is just fizzy water and that's exactly what we're going to make next so
now that we know what high quality fizzy water tastes like let's go ahead and
take a shot at making our own quick update guys here's what I just did I
took a little water import it into a separate glass and then got a chunk of
dry ice and picked up the grocery store and use my mini master sword to smash it
up into small chunks now watch very carefully to what happens if we grab
some of those smaller chunks and toss them into the water that's pretty much
the typical dry ice water reaction but something else is taking place that you
may not have realized the last time you said it's done the water around the dry
ice is actually getting fizzy eventually the water around the dryest will get so
cold it will form a layer of ice which will acts as an insulator and will
actually prevent the dry from bubbling off as quickly but right now you can see
it's forming a vapor barrier a gas barrier around the dry ice which looks
really really cool it almost makes it look lacquered alright guys so it's been
about 4 minutes our driest is almost completely dissolved now occasionally
I'll get somebody who asked me what would happen if you drank the water has
the dry ice in it so I'm going to try that for you now
Hmm, its fizzy and you know what it almost tastes the same as our San Pellegrino we just
made fizzy water by throwing dry ice into it isn't that interesting the San
Pellegrino does have more of a bite more fizz and I'm pretty sure that's because
it's got more carbon dioxide dissolved into the water however if we drop in
more dry ice and let it run longer I'm pretty sure we can achieve a very
similar effect with our homebrew so now that we know we can make our own
sparkling water using just a few chunks of dry ice let's go ahead and take it to
the next level and see if we can make carbonated drinks
so all the gusto it like turned into a mash okay so not a great way to get
orange juice
so here we are guys they just poured some drinks and cut up some fruit and
now we're left with four different glasses we've got lemonade apple juice
orange juice and watermelon juice now as is none of these drinks are fizzy at all
I've tasted each of them and they're completely flat so the next step is to
grab a few handfuls of dry ice fill our glasses full and let them sit for about
20 minutes to see if our drinks carbonates them sell quick word of
advice if you ever try making orange juice for yourself don't include the
peels this stuff tastes terrible yeah mmm oh yeah
watermelon that's a win here we go
guys here we are it's been about 25 minutes and each of our cups is still
bubbling away however one thing that's very interesting is the dry ice is so
cold it actually forms a layer of ice around it and acts as a little bit of an
insulator so it does slow down the bubbling process quite a bit so this is
all looked really cool we made a huge mess but here's the real question after
20 minutes of experimenting have our drinks turned into fizzy drinks here we
go very cold and I do feel the carbon dioxide bubbles tingling on my tongue
just like you would with a soda we've effectively just turned our apple juice
into sparkling cider that's very cool it's too bad half of its frozen, You know
it had an idea for that frozen stuff if we scoop that out we've got ourselves a
nice carbonated slushy mmm cool fizzy and refreshing alright next up we got our
sparkling lemonade as I call it chilled beverage see how it tastes
yeah it's fizzy it's carbonated that actually has a really Pleasant taste to
it
mmm it's tickling my throat that's cool yeah I quite like that I highly
recommend dry some lemonade good combination all right this
monstrosity of orange juice that I attempted to make very fizzy it tastes
terrible but it definitely is fizzy very cool this one I'm very much looking
forward to this is the watermelon which tasted great before can't wait to see
how it tastes fizzy effervescent yep pretty much what
you'd expect carbonated watermelon juice it tastes like it is nice but honestly I
think I prefer this one flat big win on the lemonade's oh that's good stuff go
try that..now just for fun I went ahead and filled up a big bowl with the rest
of the apple juice through in a few chunks of dry and just let it sit for
about 20 minutes then I took some of that juice and I transferred it using a
funnel into this coke bottle and screw the cap on tight and if you shake it up
you can actually feel it pressurized and looking at it you can see all the same
soda bubbles and fizz they would expect to see out of a carbonated drink so I
think at this point we've effectively turned regular apple juice into
something very similar to that sparkling cider you get for special occasion
homebrew non-alcoholic sparkling cider and if I remove the cap yep I'd say
that's fizzy we did it homemade fizzy drinks makes the mess just like the rest
taste test
you can see as we were pouring those out the Martinelli's actually had a little
bit more foam for us a little bit more of a head at the top there and that's
because it's got more carbon dioxide actually dissolved in the fluid but now
that's sitting out at standard atmosphere let's go ahead and give it a
taste test .Oh! my goodness that is really really good I mean really good
that's our homemade stuff - all right original Martinelli
almost identical they taste almost identical that is super cool
I'd say this one pickles the tongue is a little bit more now I take that back
this one is distance busy so ad standard atmospheric pressure these things taste
almost identical this one tickles your tongue it's got a nice aftertaste
it's delicious they taste identical and I think I prefer this one because you
know we'll look closer a natural side effect amusing drives so interesting
stuff guys the purpose of this experiment was to see if we could use
dry ice to make our own improvised carbonated beverages and apparently the
answer is yes we can although it's not nearly as practical or as easy as just
going down to store buying something but it definitely is a lot of fun you might
be wondering if you can use this trick to rejuvenate a flat soda as well the
answer is yes if you take a very small chunk of dry sand I mean very small like
no bigger than your thumbnail and drop that down into your container and screw
the cap on site the bottle immediately begins pressurizing and the carbon
dioxide begins to dissolve back into liquid and honestly this really isn't
something that you should try at home because putting dry ice in a sealed
container in a lot of cases will make it explode so there you have a guys that's
how to use a little bit of dry ice some juice some water or whatever else you
like to make your own carbonated drinks at home just make sure you don't use too
much dry ice and don't put it in a sealed container because it could
explode and of course a big thanks to King Yoshi for requesting this
experiment and to everyone who helps support them go ahead and check your
youtube inbox mr. Yoshi I'm sending a 25 bucks thanks for joining me for this
experiment I'll be looking for you the next one talk to you then is it a really
cool shimmer it's so shiny yeah this one I'm very much looking forward to this is
our watermelon juice it tasted so good before I'm very much looking forward to
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